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Loading... Black Beautyby Anna Sewell
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. It was OK . I found it really hard to understand sometimes. I finally gave up and watched the movie. It's a sweet story but it has too many details. (  ) BookBrook | Feb 7, 2010 |  The life of a horse told from a horse’s point of view. The horse seemed to accept that his life was to be controlled by humans (he never longed for days of roaming the wild prairie, for example) but he always wished that his masters be kind. Some were. Some were not. Sewell saw lots of cruelty toward horses and part of her reason for writing the book (as it says in the forward to this book) was to show the torment that many horses faced. I especially liked this version of the book, filled with illustrations of horse terms and places in London and depictions of complicated events in the story. (  ) debnance | Jan 29, 2010 | Four out of ten.Black Beauty is the story of a spirited horse - a beautiful coal black stallion with a brilliant white star on his forehead. Follow Black Beauty's adventures from the peaceful green meadows of his youth to the cold, bitter streets of nineteenth-century London. (  ) theboylatham | Jan 25, 2010 | The story of a young horse growing up in England. thePaperWoman | Jan 10, 2010 | This is a wonderful book about a horse - told by him - who begins his life rather pampered, but is eventually sold. He goes from one owner to another finding that different people treat him differently - some with care, and some withnot. This is a great story for children and young adults who are ready to tackle a more serious chapter book with a little more serious content as it teaches children treat all animals with love and patience. I would recommend this book for my library. (  ) betsyeggers | Dec 22, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0439228905, Mass Market Paperback)"A horse is a horse of course unless of course the horse is Black Beauty. Animal-loving children have been devoted to Black Beauty throughout this century, and no doubt will continue through the next. Although Anna Sewell's classic paints a clear picture of turn-of-the-century London, its message is universal and timeless: animals will serve humans well if they are treated with consideration and kindness.Black Beauty tells the story of the horse's own long and varied life, from a well-born colt in a pleasant meadow to an elegant carriage horse for a gentleman to a painfully overworked cab horse. Throughout, Sewell rails--in a gentle, 19th-century way--against animal maltreatment. Young readers will follow Black Beauty's fortunes, good and bad, with gentle masters as well as cruel. Children can easily make the leap from horse-human relationships to human-human relationships, and begin to understand how their own consideration of others may be a benefit to all. (Ages 9 to 12)" (retrieved from Amazon Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:22:18 -0500) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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